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JACK BENNETT
SHERIFF
PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA
uct 8th 1914 S V Stewart- Governor
Helena Montana Pear Sir;-
Yuurs message of Oct seventh to hand this date, and i, beg to advise you of the conditions here in Sheridan County regarding the i W W peopl® iraYeling west* The Great Northern Ry allowed seme fifty of these peof^le to ride on a flat car into our County from If ill is ton N D, and at Poplar Montana they unloaded the same. And the next day another train came along from the east with 65 more, again stopping at Poplar, when the first bunch got on the same train and went as far as Chelsea where the train ceew tied up or rather side
tracked the traia and took their engine and caboose back to Poplajb.
same The mmit day after the killing of the thrcje men^ Supt iJoyle of the
Great Northern ordered the whole bunch taken back to Poplar, and
he had a train stop at Chelsea for that purpose,
we have examined a great many of these people with the hope of finding the guiltir party, and are detaining three who we hope to convict, but i admit that it sissiKxxKsit is not very satisfactory evidence that we have gathered, it soemed to'have been a fight amoung themselves, unfortunately the Railroad engineer became a target which may have been willful or accidental,^ it is the time of year when this class of people
arc drifting west, and when they wamt once o^nMi''ff^ in bunches they become hard to turn back. You no doubt understand this condition fully

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JACK BENNETT
SHERIFF
PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA
uct 8th 1914 S V Stewart- Governor
Helena Montana Pear Sir;-
Yuurs message of Oct seventh to hand this date, and i, beg to advise you of the conditions here in Sheridan County regarding the i W W peopl® iraYeling west* The Great Northern Ry allowed seme fifty of these peof^le to ride on a flat car into our County from If ill is ton N D, and at Poplar Montana they unloaded the same. And the next day another train came along from the east with 65 more, again stopping at Poplar, when the first bunch got on the same train and went as far as Chelsea where the train ceew tied up or rather side
tracked the traia and took their engine and caboose back to Poplajb.
same The mmit day after the killing of the thrcje men^ Supt iJoyle of the
Great Northern ordered the whole bunch taken back to Poplar, and
he had a train stop at Chelsea for that purpose,
we have examined a great many of these people with the hope of finding the guiltir party, and are detaining three who we hope to convict, but i admit that it sissiKxxKsit is not very satisfactory evidence that we have gathered, it soemed to'have been a fight amoung themselves, unfortunately the Railroad engineer became a target which may have been willful or accidental,^ it is the time of year when this class of people
arc drifting west, and when they wamt once o^nMi''ff^ in bunches they become hard to turn back. You no doubt understand this condition fully